Leonidas, how are you going to fight with so few? The King of Sparta responded: "If you think that I am going to fight by numbers, then the whole of Greece would be insufficient, for she is only a small part of the numbers of the Persians Millions...but if I am going to fight by valor, then even this number is not enough"!

"A historic nation like Hellas that for eight thousand years keeps climbing and that every now and then reaches the top of the world, illuminating and civilizing, will return to the top once again. The immemorial breath of Hellenism never ends: Its time of exhalation will come again."